Posted by bleauberry on May 12, 2010, at 17:47:58
In reply to What AAP helps most with motivation/concentration?, posted by conundrum on May 12, 2010, at 12:44:10
Abilify is noted to be helpful often enough that people mention it here from time to time. The doses are almost always between 1mg to 5mg, sometimes even just 1mg every other day.
My own experience is that the only one that helps the symptoms you described is amisulpride. But even with it, the dose has to be 25mg. Studies always use 50mg or 100mg. To me it felt like an antipsychotic at those doses. It is a finicky med, changing colors significantly with small dose changes. It never got me close to remission or anything, but definitely got me doing things I had been proscrastinating. I was motivated and got a lot done. More energy, clearer headed.
The problem is likely deeper than any psych med is going to cure. They might help soften the symptoms a bit for a time. But something else is causing the stuff. I can't put my finger on it, but for sure my symptoms similar to yours are caused by either: candidiasis, lead and mercury, or lyme. Most likely a combination of them all. That's because I Herx badly on Diflucan and then feel improved. I had one miracle day while on Doxycycline. The one that helps me the most though, hands down, is DMSA (a mercury/lead chelating medicine FDA approved for children). I feel the best when on a round of that stuff. Don't know what that means, but it looks pretty obvious.
I guess I'm saying we can try all the meds we want and sooner and later find something that will help but hardly ever be a cure. That is, until we try other things to see what happens. Things that have our symptoms at the top of the list of what they do. Candida causes depression, fatigue, and brain fog. Lyme does too. And so does an accumulation of metals. No one could even test or guess if they have these things, accurately, without taking meds that treat them to see what happens. All we know for sure is, the symptoms of them are definitely present. Pure logic I guess, but seems like rocket science to many.
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